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A spiritual comment and prayer to start the day with Ennette C Lainchbury

Good Morning Everyone,

When we first moved to the UK, I don’t know why but I was absolutely obsessed with sending postcards and old school snail mail to my friends back home. This was way back when in the noughties, instant messaging and emailing was all the rage. To be honest I’m still such a fan of sending a little snail mail today, there’s nothing quiet as lovely as receiving a surprise letter or card in the post.

Whether or not you’d call yourself a person of faith, I think sending old school snail mail requires a leap of faith. Nowadays we can track our packages and pay online and trust that the package will arrive, we have the confirmation email and the order number and the tracking number, there’s a whole lot of certainty. But with a letter, you put the stamp on, triple check the address, and then fingers crossed put it into the black void of the letterbox slot, not knowing exactly when it will get to its intended destination.

In the Bible, it says that ‘faith is confidence in what we hope for and certainty about what we do not see.’ I find it so encouraging that every day, in little ways as simple as sending a letter, we operate by faith without even realising it.

Even when doubt creeps in and emotions bubble up, every day we can choose to anchor our faith and hope in God’s steadfast love. This thing that we cannot see or often feel. This is what keeps me going through seasons of uncertainty, when my soul feels weary, and situations or relationships feel strained.

So, I’ll end with this little prayer from my heart to yours:

Hold my soul close, O Lord, that I may feel your nearness even now in this silence, that I would find within me a wellspring of faith especially when so often I cannot feel it. Fill me with confidence in those things that I am longing and waiting for. Fill me with certainty in the things that I hope for even as they are yet unseen.

Amen

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